{"id":13971,"date":"2019-07-15T20:13:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=13971"},"modified":"2019-07-15T20:13:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:13:35","slug":"research-weight-loss-efforts-are-hindered-by-poor-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/weight-loss\/research-weight-loss-efforts-are-hindered-by-poor-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: Weight Loss Efforts Are Hindered by Poor Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>You\u2019ve been eating healthy and exercising to lose weight, but are you getting enough sleep?<\/h2>\n<h3>There\u2019s new evidence that disrupted sleep or an insufficient amount of sleep can impede your efforts to lose weight.<\/h3>\n<p><b>The research<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The researchers looked at the data from nearly 2,000 men and women over the course of 12 months. The participants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Were all over 65<\/li>\n<li>Were either overweight or obese<\/li>\n<li>Had metabolic syndrome (i.e., high blood pressure, increased insulin, low blood lipids, and low glucose tolerance)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The participants engaged in an intensive weight-loss program for all 12 months. They followed a Mediterranean-type diet and increased the amount of exercise they did. The volunteers also enrolled in behavioral support sessions to help them make good lifestyle choices and develop healthy habits.<\/p>\n<p>During the year, the scientists noted any weight gain or loss and measured the participants\u2019 body fat. They also noted how much sleep the volunteers got and the quality of sleep.<\/p>\n<p><b>The results<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the study, the researchers found that people who were overweight and didn\u2019t sleep well lost less weight than people who were overweight but slept fine. More specifically, the team found that people who reported having regular sleep hours had lost more weight than those who said they didn\u2019t sleep the same number of hours every night.<\/p>\n<p>As for quantity of sleep, the participants who got less than 6 hours of sleep had less of a reduction in their waist size compared to people who reported that they got 7 to 9 hours of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe findings of our study highlight the importance of sleep characteristics on weight and adiposity responses to lifestyle intervention programs in elders with metabolic syndrome,\u201d explains Professor Jodi Salas-Salvado, a lead researcher on the study. \u201cFuture lifestyle interventions aiming at weight loss should promote adequate sleep and a regular sleep pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve been eating healthy and exercising to lose weight, but are you getting enough sleep? There\u2019s new evidence that disrupted sleep or an insufficient amount of sleep can impede your efforts to lose weight. The research The researchers looked at the data from nearly 2,000 men and women over the course of 12 months. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703],"tags":[693,784],"class_list":["post-13971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss","tag-sleep","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}